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Subject: Re: What are null moves?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 23:12:06 09/20/98

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On September 20, 1998 at 18:52:03, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On September 20, 1998 at 17:57:30, John Coffey wrote:
>
>>More importantly:  Null-move is a new concept to me.  What is the idea
>>behind it?
>
>It is a domain-independent forward-pruning technique.

That's what I said during my B.Sc. project defense, but Tony Marsland called me
on it. :-)  He pointed out that it isn't domain-independent because even within
the context of two-player zero-sum games, it's possible that the rules of the
game could allow a "pass".  Scrabble would be an example of this (change zero
tiles).

Dave Gomboc

• Re: What are null moves? Dave Gomboc 23:15:21 09/20/98
  • Re: What are null moves? José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba 08:21:25 09/21/98
  • Re: What are null moves? Robert Hyatt 06:09:55 09/21/98

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